Ian Shults
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Tigers of Different Stripes
Mise en Scene
The Paradox of Secret Sharing and Sneaky Snakes •
That Better Be a Good Bottle •
The List of Every Goddam Thing You've Come to Expect •
The Indecent Obsessions of Weird Mall Kids (After Derek Ridgers and Ed Van Der Elsken)
The Idle Days of the Discerning Declasses •
Horseplay Leads to Tears
It's the Devil I Love
The Implicit Potential for Further Disaster (After Bob Gruen)
A Tawdry Thing in the Age of Ennui •
Nobody's Partner •
The Undesirables
Les Irritations du Minotaure
Every F-ing Time
Tigers of Different Stripes, 2025
acrylic on panel, 45 x 36 inches, $4300
Mise en Scene, 2025
acrylic on panel, 45 x 36 inches, $4300
The Paradox of Secret Sharing and Sneaky Snakes, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60 inches, sold
That Better Be a Good Bottle, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 42 x 40 inches, sold
The List of Every Goddam Thing You've Come to Expect, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, sold
The Indecent Obsessions of Weird Mall Kids (After Derek Ridgers and Ed Van Der Elsken), 2023
acrylic on panel, 40 x 60 inches, $5800
The Idle Days of the Discerning Declasses, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60 inches, sold
Horseplay Leads to Tears, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches, $6200
It's the Devil I Love, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, $3800
The Implicit Potential for Further Disaster (After Bob Gruen), 2023
acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, $6500
A Tawdry Thing in the Age of Ennui, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 60 x 96 inches, sold
Nobody's Partner, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, sold
The Undesirables, 2024
acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, $2500
Les Irritations du Minotaure, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, $3800
Every F-ing Time, 2019
charcoal on paper, 22 x 30 inches unframed, $1200
About the artist...
View Ian Shults' March 2024 solo show 'Common Drugs and the Fantasies They Produce' here.
Take a virtual tour of Shults' 2019 show at Wally Workman Gallery here, Shults' 2017 show here, or his 2015 show here.
Read the American Art Collector review of his 2019 show, or the review of Shults' 2015 show.
Read The Austin Chronicle Cover Story here.
Ian Shults was chosen as #35 on the Oxford American's Top 100 Southern Artists in 2012.
"Finish this sentence, sure, but then put the goddam paper down or step away from the screen and haul your ass up West Sixth to see this first show by local painter Ian Shults. That's the best advice we can give a fellow citizen right now, as the Workman Gallery decks its walls with the deconstructed vintage reprobates and swingers, all mid-century seersucker and clandestine hanky-panky, rendered in stunning acrylics by this hotshot with a brush and a brain." - The Austin Chronicle, July 9, 2010
Ian Shults' paintings forge fine art and the profane to tell sordid tales of debauchery with a sly sense of humor. His paintings recall a bygone era when the sheen of the American Dream dulled, and subversive behavior of illicit drugs and kinky benders were swept under the rug. Ian spent eight years as the Lead Illustrator and Head Sculptor at Blue Genie Art, where his ideas and vision accounted for much of the look of the various sculptures and illustrations produced at the shop.